ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,036, issued on April 7, was assigned to Cox Communications Inc. (Atlanta).

"Secured analytics using encrypted data" was invented by Jignesh Patel (Lilburn, Ga.), Harry Tang (Johns Creek, Ga.) and Matthew Edwin Carothers (Dunwoody, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods are provided for performing secured analytics using encrypted data. The method may include receiving first data and second data, the first data and the second data being homomorphically encrypted, the first data associated with a first type of data, and the second data associated with a second type of data. The method may include retrieving th...